Our friends at BillShrink, who developed an interactive tool that lets you compare handsets and pick the best phone-plan combination, crunched the data on some of the newer smartphones and compared them with the current champion, the iPhone 3Gs. “While sticker prices are roughly… Read More »
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FourSquare, the location-based mobile application game that launched back in March, has been getting a lot of attention here in the U.S., but in the meantime, an offering made available in the iPhone App Store that same month has been gaining users internationally:… Read More »
As we have said before, developers are the kingmakers in the brave new world of the mobile Internet. That sentiment was made pretty evident at a small gathering organized by Palm in San Francisco today. The event was held to introduce Ben Galbraith and Dion… Read More »
In the battle of the smartphones, RIM’s Blackberry Curve edged out the competition to take the top spot as the best-selling smartphone model in the U.S. in the second quarter of this year, according to inaugural smartphone market share data from research firm… Read More »
So, you launch a brand new product with a lot of publicity into a very crowded market. How do you promote that product? If you’re Palm, by running what some folks have dubbed “creepy,” “annoying” ads that don’t explain — at all — what… Read More »
At the Nokia World 2008 conference, Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo waxed eloquent about the N97 handset, the company’s highest-end phone, and described it as the “world’s most advanced mobile computer.” He went on to say, “We are, in fact, transforming the Internet — putting in… Read More »
After listening in on yesterday’s Palm investor call, I came away feeling only half-satisfied. On the one hand, Palm says it’s poised to become cash-flow positive in two quarters. The company ended the last fiscal quarter of 2009 with $255.1 million in cash, even after going… Read More »
Last September, on the eve of our first Mobilize conference, John SanGiovanni, co-founder and VP of product design at Zumobi, talked to us about the coming era of the superphone. Eschewing the smartphone moniker, SanGiovanni noted how this new class of handsets — led… Read More »
After six long months, Palm’s Pre is here. And I do mean here — I woke early and headed to a local Sprint store this morning. Availability reports vary by location; some stores have large lines and small quantities of stock, while others (like mine) have… Read More »
Where, a location-based mobile application from Boston-based uLocate, is quickly becoming a must-have on newer mobile platforms such as the iPhone and Android. It’s been download 2 million times and garnered a million registered users, numbers that are likely to head further north once
The buzz around the much-awaited Palm Pre has started. The make-or-break device that will define the destiny of the iconic handheld maker will hit the market later this week. Here is my super-quick hand-on review. Read More »
Sprint will start selling the much-awaited Palm Pre on June 6, the embattled carrier said today. The phone, which onlookers expect could determine Sprint’s fate, will cost $199.99 after a $100 rebate. Best Buy, RadioShack and certain Wal-Mart stores will sell the Pre, along… Read More »
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